allamanda

plural allamandas

1. Any plant in the genus Allamanda, especially those grown in mild climates and indoors for their colorful flowers, such as Allamanda cathartica.First known use 18th c.

   Then one day she received an allamanda seedling from an old neighbor.

   2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 111

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   Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomæa, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘The Outlying Pickets of the New World’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 114

   Sweetman snaps off an allamanda bloom and examines it so minutely he might be seeking his salvation in the flower's golden centre.

   1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 109